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by CrypticShift 1287 days ago
It depends on what you mean by forum. Yeah, a lot of subject-based forums are being "redditified", and other switched to the real-time Slack/Discord model.

Also, I see a lot of community-based products, where forums are just a component (example : outverse [0] ).

But I don't think simple forums platforms are (or never will be) out of vogue. There may even a be lack of diversity right now.

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PS Actually. I always wanted a forum with a UI like Hacker News or Radiohead Message board [1]. I like that bare and outlined design. Does a similar OSS forum exist?

[0] https://www.outverse.com/

[1] http://msgboard.radiohead.com/
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renaissance_tea 1287 days ago
Check out Lemmy. The creator recently released a PhpBB styled version rewritten in Rust, but he has another version too

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmyBB

Mirrors/demos in the readme

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